Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Obama breaks Guinness record with new Twitter account

The president’s self-description on his Twitter profile reads: “Dad, husband, and 44th President of the United States.”

Washington -US President Barack Obama broke a Guinness record by becoming the fastest person to garner one million followers on Twitter, a feat he accomplished in less than five hours with his new account @POTUS, Efe news agency reported.

Guinness World Records, which verifies and keeps an official list of world records, said on Tuesday on its website that the president has set the new record on the social network the day before.